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Re: Uses too much entropy (Debian Bug #343085)
From: |
Werner Koch |
Subject: |
Re: Uses too much entropy (Debian Bug #343085) |
Date: |
Fri, 04 Jan 2008 14:14:50 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.110007 (No Gnus v0.7) |
On Fri, 4 Jan 2008 13:35, address@hidden said:
> I think the daemon is there to help libgcrypt maintain randomness state
> between invocations of applications that use randomness from libgcrypt.
Right. And it is still flagged as experimental because it lacks any
fair distribution of random to requesting clients.
> The 3000+ bits part doesn't seem excessive to me, but I think the
> problem is that it is required each time a server or client starts up.
> Saving a random seeds file would help with this. Or using the libgcrypt
You need a seed file for good performace. That's all.
Salam-Shalom,
Werner
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